Fort Apache [videorecording (DVD)] / John Ford and Merian C. Cooper present ; an Argosy Pictures production ; an RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. release ; screenplay by Frank S. Nugent ; directed by John Ford.
John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendariz, Ward Bond, John Agar. Based on the story "Massacre" by James Warner Bellah. Videodisc release of a 1948 motion picture. Special features: "Monument Valley: John Ford country" featurette ; theatrical trailer.
Summary:
This classic portrait of the old West depicts a military martinet calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
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